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If it is impossible to travel at the speed of light due to the fact that your mass increases infinitely and the energy needed to propel you at that speed is infinite. How come a photon can? Is it to do with the Wave V's particle nature of a photon that it is able to travel so fast?
Also read somewhere that you shouldn't think of a photon as a particle only a wave.
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As has been mentioned, a photon has zero rest mass and therefore can be accelerated to lightspeed.
Photons are both waves and particles....simultaneously. However, they'll act as either depending on the situation they find themselves in.